ABSTRACT
I build on the notion of delimitation and use social presence and social absence to illustrate how difference or otherness is experienced with respect to racial, ethnic, and national identification. Thus, this chapter is concerned with how discursive practices of identification are enacted in online spaces with respect to difference and otherness. In particular, I analyse how the hierarchy of privilege and otherness reproduces educational inequity with respect to racial, ethnic, and national identification. That is, the learning context yields unequal learning experiences that ultimately secures power and privilege for certain cultural groups in the context of online education.
